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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4954687, member: 1969"]
I say this in advance, knowing this could lead me to being called a stats boy! But I am going to try to help you out as someone who understands the process fairly well.
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The ACC did not do as well as others top conferences in OOC play [/B]- as a result conferences that did better than us will have higher NET's (and boost each other in conference play) and get more Q1 and Q2 win opportunities. # of Q1 and Q2 is the biggest driver of getting teams in   And the reverse    .  It's why the ACC has not had a high # of teams in 2022 and 2023, and certainly more than just trending that way in 2024.   The ACC really struggled compared to others in OOC play in 2022 and 2023, and not quite as bad in 2024, but still not good.

And the fact that we got 2 teams in the final 4 in 2022, is totally irrelevant to the equation.   Each year is a different year.
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Of course you are going to find some good results in our OOC games - but the ACC have played 164 of them.   Its the results of all those games as a whole that matter.   [/B]As a simple point of comparison the Big 12 won 82% of its OOC games... the ACC won 71% of its OOC games.   Fairly big difference.    They also had a higher winning % against other top conferences, more Q1 and Q2 wins outside of conference and less bad losses.   It wasn't as bad last year though.   IIRC, last year the Big 12 had 32 quality wins out of conference (vs our 17). and had 2 bad losses (compared to our 21).   Numbers might be off by a few,
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